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Community
Our goal is to provide a memorable trip in Ladakh, with each moment filled with adventure and pleasure – whilst also benefitting the local community. Our tour creates the opportunity to increase cross-cultural understanding, and our local staff are well trained in making links across cultures, encouraging communication between visitors and Ladakhis, to ensure that your experiences to both sides are rich and rewarding.
Accommodation is in small independent, locally owned guesthouses through out this trip which brings income to local people and creates employment.
You stay in a village home stay for one night in the village of Alchi which directly supports families in this remotest region providing them with a business and a much needed additional income.
Your local guide is Ladakh born and bred and will travel with you through out the trip; you will be taken to local restaurants, shops and markets so the money that you spend directly benefits the people that live in this remote region. All support staff are also Ladakh people which provides valuable employment for them.
Tourism in Ladakh is still in its infancy and this trip gives you a chance to bring a new livelihood to the region. The local operator that runs this trip is Ladakh owned and managed their goal is to ensure that change in Ladakh takes a positive direction. They give some of the profits to assist the people of Ladakh and fund community-based initiatives focusing on environmental, health, and educational activities, including guide training. Assisting Ladakhi foundations and non-profit organizations working at the grassroots level to promote sustainability and environmental and cultural preservation. A key project funded through this is the Ladakh Society for Traditional Medicine (L.S.T.M.), a local organization dedicated to the revitalization of traditional medicine (Sowa Rigpa) in remote villages in Ladakh. This system of medicine, also known as Tibetan medicine or Amchi Medicine, has been the health care system of Tibet and the Himalayan kingdoms for more than 2,500 years. A large portion of Lungtatravel’ profit goes to L.S.T.M. to strengthen the practice of this ancient and time-tested science of natural healing, as well as the conservation and protection of Ladakh’s potent high-altitude medicinal plants.
If you wish to stay longer in Ladakh we can also organise volunteering in this region in the form of teaching English in local village schools.
Environment
Environmental consciousness of the fragile ecosystem of the Himalayas is the mantra of our field staff. We believe in keeping the environment clean and bring all tins, bottles, refuse back to Leh for disposal or recycling. Whilst on the trek we camp responsibly, choosing our sites carefully and leave behind only footprints so that the environment is not disturbed.
Foundation:
We have our own foundation, a registered charity, which our travellers and volunteers can join us in supporting.
Aims of the foundation are:
The advancement of education, the relief of poverty and sickness and the preservation and protection of good health through the provision of financial assistance, volunteers and such other forms of support as the council members may from time to time determine.
The Foundation supports local communities by:
- Making grants to individuals
- Making grants to organisations
- Providing other finance
- Providing human resources
- Providing buildings / facilities / open space
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